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lacunar en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ləˈk(j)u.nəɹ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ləˈk(j)ʉ.nəɾ/ (Scotland)
  • /ləˈk(j)uː.nə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • lə-k(y)o͞o′nər
  • /laˈk(j)uː.nɜː(ɾ)/ (India)
  • /laˈk(j)uː.nəɾ/ (India)
  • /ləˈk(j)ʉː.nə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /lʌˈk(j)ʉ.nʌɾ/ (Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lacūnar. First attested in 1696.

Meanings

  1. A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit; a ceiling containing panels of this kind.
    • Lacunar, (in Architect.) the flooring or Planking above the Porticoes; a cieled Roof arched or fretted. [1658, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words, 5th edition, quoted in OED, published 1696:
    • On the grounds of the coffers forming the lacunaria of the ceilings. 1845, Athenæum, quoted in OED:
    • Lacunariæ, or Lacunars, panels or coffers formed on the ceilings of apartments, and sometimes on the soffits of coronae in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. [1823, Peter Nicholson, The New Practical Builder, and Workman's Companion, quoted in OED:

Forms

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lacunaria Number=Plur lexicographic
lacunars Number=Plur lexicographic

lacunar en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ləˈk(j)u.nəɹ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ləˈk(j)ʉ.nəɾ/ (Scotland)
  • /ləˈk(j)uː.nə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • lə-k(y)o͞o′nər
  • /laˈk(j)uː.nɜː(ɾ)/ (India)
  • /laˈk(j)uː.nəɾ/ (India)
  • /ləˈk(j)ʉː.nə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /lʌˈk(j)ʉ.nʌɾ/ (Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From lacuna + -ar. First attested in 1870.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, relational) Of or pertaining to a lacuna.
    • Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared. 2016 March 3, “Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
    • The circulation is always more or less extensively lacunar; even arteries may be wanting. 1870, George Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life. […], quoted in OED, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page cv:

Deriveds

trilacunar · perilacunar · unilacunar · nonlacunar · lacunarity · sublacunar · multilacunar

Relateds

lacunate

Synonyms

lacunal